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    what's the most difficult poem that u have ever read?

    some of eliot's early poems r really obscure like rilke's.

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    For me it would be Homer's Oddisy. Unoftunatliy it was so long ago that I don't remember the translation. It must have been a pretty easy translation though (I was in grade 10) because when I thought I could tackle his Iliad I found it way above my background.
    It took me a while to get into early Eliot. I think that after you get used to it though it becomes a little more naturally.
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    For me initially it was definitely Horace. I blame that though on my lacking ability to read Latin and the English translations of his text available. Though I can say that after some time spent with them, they became easier and easier to understand.

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    I'd say Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen. I've yet to completely read it.
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    i cant quite remember the name, but i know it has to be a shakepere's sonnets. sonnets by him are always difficult to read.

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    i don't find shakespeare's sonnets difficult.all the difficulty i find is in the poems of sylvia plath.

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    Pound's 'Cantos' are fairly obscure.

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    I think for me it was "Hymnen an die Nacht" by Novalis.

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    Almost all of Rimbaud's poems are very difficult to comprehend. The poems that I got most was Le Bateau Ivre and Sensation.

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